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Lloyd George Richards (June 29, 1919 – June 29, 2006) was a Canadian-American theatre director, actor, and dean of the Yale School of Drama from 1979 to 1991, and Yale University professor emeritus.
1 de jul. de 2006 · Lloyd Richards, one of the most influential figures in modern American theater and a pioneering director who brought the plays of Lorraine Hansberry and August Wilson to Broadway and championed...
1 de jul. de 2006 · Lloyd Richards, one of the most respected directors and educators in American theater, died in Manhattan on his 87th birthday. Richards was the first African American to direct a Broadway play:...
15 de feb. de 2022 · Lloyd Richards served as the Artistic Director of the National Playwrights Conference — the O’Neill Center’s founding program — for 32 years. Richards championed several generations of young playwrights. Lloyd Richards became head of the actor training program at New York University’s School of the Arts, in 1966.
1 de jul. de 2006 · Lloyd Richards, the stage director who helped launch Lorraine Hansberry and August Wilson into the playwriting pantheon, revolutionizing not only black theater but the entire way in which new...
Lloyd Richards, the groundbreaking Tony Award-winning American director who worked on Broadway, in regional theatre and in the academic community, shepherding the work of August Wilson and...
4 de oct. de 2006 · Mr. Richards, who died on June 29 at 87, would have been considered a theater pioneer as a director alone for staging the 1959 production of Lorraine Hansberry’s “Raisin in the Sun.”
